It is with delight that I read today that the local First Nations Elders are calling for the dual naming of Julian Rocks / Nguthungulli and Cape Byron / Walgun.
I’m interested to also hear of all the local massacre sites and to signpost their exact location.
In Germany, one person decided to name all the sites of transportation and killings of the Jewish community under the Nazis. He started the Stolperstein Project 30 years ago, laying down 75,000 brass cobble stones across all of Germany’s streets, engraved with individual names of Jewish citizens deported and murdered under Hitler’s orders.
I migrated from Germany 40 years ago trying to escape the horrendous past of killing Jews, gays, gypsies, communists, social democrats and people with disability. I’m now a citizen of a country that is not yet fully embracing their past of murdering members of our First Nations community.
We hear of killings at Hell’s Hole near Mt Jerusalem, and a massacre of helpless women, children and Elders on Shelley Beach near Ballina.
It is not only the Myall Creek massacre near Moree that needs to be remembered. The horrible truth is right below our feet in the Shire. What are we doing about honouring them?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
